Personality Type Discussion based on the movie “Lean on me”
From the movie I have watched, I choose the person named Mrs.Joan Levias who is a vice principle of Eastside High School. In my opinion, her personality type is E for Extravert, S for Sensing, F for Feeling and P for Perceiving.
I think she might be extravert because from the scene as Mr.Clark is walking down a hallway, she is running up to him and ask to talk to him and also from a lot of scene, you will see that she always wait and ask to talk when she has a content that she wants Mr.Clark to notify. So she might be a kind of person that like communicate verbally, speak freely and seek interaction.
Next, she is practical, focuses on details, pays attention to physical reality, what she see, hear and touch. She is concerned with what is actual, present, current, and real as she feels that her student are not ready to take the basic skill test from the result she saw from the practice version and she likes to work step by step as she let the score of practice version come by its schedule. She refuses to hasten for the result while Mr.Clark orders to do that. So I can imply that she is a sensing from above detail.
Then, Mrs.Levias likes focus on colleagues and students. She always uses feeling and thinks about impact that could happen to the people she cares about. She likes harmony. You can see from the movie in the scene that she disagree with Mr.Clark's methods that always blame everyone whatever they do and she doesn’t like his order that fires one teacher and suspends another for clashing with him in front of the students. She cares about their feeling that those teacher work with school for long time. She also cares about her students too. She tells Mr.Clark that they are not ready to take basic skill test even if the fact that they have to because it comes to the deadline. She also says that she’s here because she cares about those children and this school. Therefore, all of mentioned actions show that she is feeling personality type who always aware of feelings, focus on values and be influenced by people.
The last is P for Perceiving. Perceiving is a kind of person who can be flexible and adapt to change. They don’t like to make the decision and allow for thing to follow. Mrs.Levias who is a vice principle of school can make some decision instead of principle but if you keep an eye on the movie, you will see that she always ask and report everything to the principle. Even if the principle tells her to make some decision because he cannot do everything at the same time, she still waits to talk to him. Moreover, she seems to prefer a flexible and like to understand and adapt to the world rather than organize it as you can see that she try her best to adapt to Mr.Clark’s discipline and appreciate with his efforts.
As far as I am concerned, Mrs.Levias’s key terminals are social contribution and equality. Her instrumental values are education and intellectual pursuits, courageous, helpful, and open-minded. Choosing to teach in government school like Eastside High School shows that she might not be interesting in wealth or reputation but she really want to do her best to give those children a good education and make them to have a better life. You can notice from the movie that Eastside High School is not just a normal school; this school is plagued with numerous problems, especially drugs and gang violence. She has to open-minded and be courage to stand up for her beliefs that she can change this student to be a good person. Furthermore, she has to be helpful person that works for the welfare of others who is her students. I imply these from her quotes saying to Mr.Clark that is “Most of the teachers here are here because they care! About those children out there! This school, this fight, they are in it with you! They take it home at night, the same as you! They are a part of those children's lives”. In addition, almost students in this school are black people so they are discriminated from white people. She believes that if they have an education, no one can abuse them. In summary, I can say that Mrs.Levias is a social distribution and wants to have equality that equal opportunity for all, no matter what nationality they are.

If I have to supervise person like Mrs.Levias who is ESFP type, I will encourage them to speak openly, be friendly, let them discuss options and bring new info because for them, team relationships are about caring, sharing the work, and having fun together. Warm and friendly, they help by listening to what teammates are trying to do, questioning to get a clear picture and reflecting back to them what they hear being said. They work very hard to see other people's points of view, although they often want what they want when they want it. They will make the effort to get really involved in the team. As Mrs.Levias say to Mr.Clark “There are 300 teachers on the faculty here, you do not do it alone!” so you have to let them think, speak, share and allow flexibility but have to set time limits.

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